Skips file on FAT drive and doesn't give an error

[Andy]

I have a file with a ":" in the file name on my source disk. I have a FAT disk set as my backup disk. Apparently this character is not allowed in filenames on FAT systems. That is fine with me (I really have no reason to use the FAT disk in a real situation), however, I am concerned because "Back in Time" never told me there was a problem. It just skipped the file and gave no warning, and there are no log files that say this file was skipped. I am concerned because I am wondering what other kinds of things "Back in Time" may not be letting me know that there is a problem. Is there a log file somewhere that I am missing? Thanks.

[Andy (andy-car-part)]

tried running rsync manually (without "Back in Time", using the FAT backup disk and filename with ":") and the output included the following error:

"rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]"

the same thing happened, other files were copied, and the file with a ":" was just skipped. (there were no previous errors as the message above refers to)

what is "Back in Time" doing with this output?

[Dan (danleweb)]

Hi,

BIT before 1.0 ignored errors.
Starting from BIT 1.0 (1.0.4 is available in stable PPA repository) there is an error check and log + log view.

Regards,
Dan